FIPS 140-2 Operations 5
RSA BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.5 Release Notes
FIPS 140-2 Operations
Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-2 - Security Requirements
for Cryptographic Modules (FIPS 140-2) details the United States Government
requirements for cryptographic modules. For more information about the FIPS 140-2
standard and validation program, see the FIPS 140-2 page on the NIST Web site at
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-
program/standards.
The FIPS 140-2 validated configurations of this release inherit their FIPS 140-2 status
from the RSA BSAFE Crypto-J JSAFE and JCE Software Module 6.2.5 (Crypto-J
JSAFE and JCE Software Module). For more information, see the RSA BSAFE
Crypto-J JSAFE and JCE Software Module Security Policy documents.
Note: FIPS 140-2 validation for the current release of the Crypto-J JSAFE
and JCE Software Module is in progress. When the validation process is
complete, the Security Policy documents might be updated and re-released, to
reflect the complete security requirements of FIPS 140-2 validation.
For the complete list of FIPS 140-2 tested and vendor affirmed operating
environments, and for detailed information about the Crypto-J JSAFE and JCE
Software Module and the secure operation of Crypto-J, see the RSA BSAFE Crypto-J
JSAFE and JCE Software Module Security Policy documents.
For details about the toolkit configuration and cryptographic implementation of
Crypto-J, see the “About the Crypto-J Toolkit” section of the RSA BSAFE Crypto-J
Installation Guide.
Note: As of February 2017, FIPS 140-2 module validations have a five year
life span from the date of the last validation. Unless modules are revalidated,
the validation expires and the module certificate is moved to the CMVP
Historical list.
Applications using modules from the CMVP Historical list are not
FIPS 140-2-compliant.
To confirm the validation state of a module, see the CMVP Validated Module page at
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-
program/validated-modules/search.